perpetratress
English edit
Etymology edit
perpetrator + -ess
Noun edit
perpetratress (plural perpetratresses)
- (rare, obsolete) A female perpetrator.
- 1844, Hampton Court, or, The prophecy fulfilled, page 291:
- He changed colour, and looked at Mr. Ashburnham and the Duke of Richmond, whilst a titter of gratified malignity at being successful in wounding a nobler soul than their own, discovered to their astonished monarch the perpetratresses of a graceless, heartless disloyalty whose existence he never could have believed.